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Re:Ask HN: Is the World Going to Shit? by friedman23 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:45PM (#33311410)
The labor is a small fixed cost. Depending on what is done with the labor the leverage is potentially infinite (eg. many internet business that earn a million or more per year for every employee they have hired).

Growth can happen by getting the same labor to do something more valuable (maybe building houses instead of chairs?)

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Re:Ask HN: Is the World Going to Shit? by sdflhasjd on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:47PM (#33311422)
Labour is people, which need food and water.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the World Going to Shit? by friedman23 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:55PM (#33311474)
I don't see the point of your statement. Economic growth can happen even if the population remains constant (or even shrinks but that would be a headwind to overall economic growth and at that point it might be more instructive to look at gdp per capita).
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Re:Ask HN: Is the World Going to Shit? by juve1996 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:28PM (#33312386)
No need for these fancy thought experiments - you're just talking about efficiency.

Either way there's a finite amount of resources. Even if we were 99.999% efficient, eventually, it runs out.

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